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Activist groups on the frontlines of change representing tens of millions of progressive-thinking North Americans.

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Sustainability Institute

The Sustainability Institute was founded in 1996 by the late Donella (Dana) Meadows to apply systems thinking and organizational learning to economic, environmental and social challenges. We believe that unsustainability does not arise out of ignorance,
irrationality or greed. It is largely the collective consequence of
rational, well-intended decisions made by people caught up in systems –
ranging from families and communities to corporations, governments and
economies – that make it difficult or impossible to act in ways that
are fully responsible to all those affected in the present and to
future generations.

The Jeremy Hammond Defense Committee is a coalition of family members, activists, lawyers, and other supporters who are working together to protect free speech and to support Jeremy Hammond. The committee’s goal is to provide information to the public and the press, to organize events related to Jeremy’s case, and to support Jeremy while he is in jail. For more information, please visit http://freejeremy.net.

TrueMajority was founded by Ben Cohen, Co-founder, Ben and Jerry's. It is a grassroots education
and advocacy joint project of UsAction and UsAction Education Fund. The 10 founding principles outline our the
philosophy of TrueMajority.

U.S. Right to Know is a new nonprofit organization, working to expose what the food industry doesn’t want us to know. We do research and communications on the failures of the corporate food system. We stand up for the right to know what is in our food, and how it affects our health.

UltraViolet is an online community of over 550,000 women and men who want to take collective action to expose and fight sexism in the public sector, private sector and the media. Find out more at WeAreUltraViolet.org

The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.

United for Peace and Justice is a coalition of more than 1400 local and national groups throughout the United States who have joined together to protest the immoral and disastrous Iraq War and oppose our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building.

United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is the nation’s largest youth-led, student labor campaign organization, with affiliated locals on over 150 campuses. USAS affiliates run both local and nationally-coordinated campaigns for economic justice in partnership with worker and community organizations. Since 1997, USAS has won precedent-setting campaigns, educated students about the growing dominance of corporations in the globalized economy, as well as the intersectionality of identity and social justice issues with the labor movement, and has trained tens of thousands of young activists to become skilled organizers, researchers, and campaigners in labor and social justice organizations.

United Wisconsin is the non-partisan grassroots organization heading up the recall efforts of Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch in Wisconsin. The group plans to continue its work as the recall campaign moves forward. For more information, visit www.unitedwisconsin.com.

U.S. PIRG, the federation of state Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), stands up to powerful special interests on behalf of the American public, working to win concrete results for our health and our well-being. With a strong network of researchers, advocates, organizers and students in state capitols across the country, we take on the special interests on issues, such as product safety,political corruption, prescription drugs and voting rights,where these interests stand in the way of reform and progress.

The U.S. Robin Hood Tax would set a 0.5% tax on the trading of stocks, 50 cents on every $100 of trades, and lesser rates on trading in bonds, derivatives and currencies in the U.S. It marks the return of a tax on financial transactions in place in this country during the years 1914 to 1966. Some form of the financial tax is in place today in more than 40 countries.

Who's behind it?

We are Nobel Prize-winning economists, former US Vice Presidents and founders of Microsoft.
We are Ronald Reagan’s Budget Director, the UN’s Secretary General and the Archbishop of Capetown.
We are union members, nurses, small business owners, community organizers, faith leaders, AIDS activists, environmentalists, movie stars and musicians, and we are part of a global movement of more than 220 million people in 25 countries who are fighting for a Robin Hood Tax – a small tax on Wall Street trades.
We are a force to be reckoned with, and we are demanding justice.

Veterans For Peace is a national organization founded in 1985. It is
structured around a national office in Saint Louis, MO and comprised of
members across the country organized in chapters or as at-large members. The organization includes men and women veterans of all eras and duty
stations including from the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), World War II,
the Korean, Vietnam, Gulf and current Iraq wars as well as other
conflicts. Our collective experience tells us wars are easy to start
and hard to stop and that those hurt are often the innocent. Thus,
other means of problem solving are necessary.

Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc. (VVAW) is a national
veterans' organization that was founded in New York City in 1967 after
six Vietnam vets marched together in a peace demonstration. It was
organized to voice the growing opposition among returning servicemen
and women to the still-raging war in Indochina, and grew rapidly to a
membership of over 30,000 throughout the United States as well as
active duty GIs stationed in Vietnam. Through ongoing actions and
grassroots organization, VVAW exposed the ugly truth about US
involvement in Southeast Asia and our first-hand experiences helped
many other Americans to see the unjust nature of that war. Today our government is still financing and arming undemocratic and
repressive regimes around the world. Meanwhile, many veterans are still denied justice -- facing
unemployment, discrimination, homelessness, post-traumatic stress
disorder and other health problems, while already inadequate services
are being cut back or eliminated.

The
Violence Policy Center
is a national tax-exempt educational organization working for a safer America
through research, investigation, analysis, and advocacy. The VPC provides
information to policymakers, journalists, organizations, advocates, and
the general public.

Voices for Creative Nonviolence has deep, long-standing roots in active nonviolent resistance to U.S. war-making. Begun in the summer of 2005, Voices draws upon the experiences of those who challenged the brutal economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and U.N. against the Iraqi people between 1990 and 2003.

WakeUpWalMart.com is about Americans joining together in common purpose to change Wal-Mart. There is only one force powerful enough to change the #1 Fortune 500 company in the world – the American people. WakeUpWalMart.com is about giving Americans the tools to empower themselves to change the world’s largest employer. We are Wal-Mart’s customers and we have the power to make Wal-Mart live up to its responsibility to its employees, our families, our communities and the nation.

War on Want fights poverty in developing countries in partnership with people affected by globalization. We campaign for human rights and against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice.

The United States’ oldest secular pacifist organization, the War
Resisters League has been resisting war at home and war abroad since
1923. Our work for nonviolent revolution has spanned decades and has
been shaped by the new visions and strategies of each generation’s
peacemakers.